ten tiny toes, they are all there, amazing little tiny feet and amazing little punching hands in there!


The baby weighs about 1LB, and looks 22 weeks old. We were able to see its tiny little mouth swallowing. Sean makes fun of me because I kept saying wow, its so big. the legs looked so long! The baby just looked so much different than it did last time we saw it. Looking now it seems so much smaller. The picture isn't the best, but you can see its little button nose and open mouth. ETA for this little guy, sometime between Jan. 28th and Feb 2nd.

Working 9-5! What a way to make a living!

More like working 7-7:30, as well as late nights for tours, and weekends is wearing me out. Maybe I was just too ambitious with our social calendar this week as well. Today was not enough rest to prep me to go back to work tomorrow. I think Sean is worn out too, I came home from classes to him sleeping on the couch, something he rarely does. On the belly button front, we are down to a thin line of demarcation my friends, only a minor indent on at the top.



I was not expecting my feet and ankles to swell so soon either, but after work they look like little puffy chubby baby feet or something. Additionally, I am having trouble adjusting to the fact that though I feel much like myself, I can no longer move like myself. So painfully noted as I jumped to grab a little girls balloon from the ceiling at the hospital the other day. As my O.B. laughed at me and said, "you may not hurt the baby, but you will definitely hurt yourself you know!"

TIRED!

36 hours of work in 3 days, not as easy as it used to be! My bellybutton is fast disappearing, Sean makes a little popping noise each time we look at it. What does one do without a bellybutton, it is one of those things in life we take for granted I suppose! Either that baby grew enormously or just changed position this week because all the sudden the little one is going nuts in there. It feels like little bounces or little flicks, the flicks are much harder when I bend over making it hard for me not to laugh when I am in a patients room. I wish we could connect something to our T.V. and watch the baby from the comfort of our own home whenever we want to. Then we could watch and see is that a hand or a foot I am feeling. What is the little guy doing in there to make such a stomachular comotion?!? These pictures make my belly look smaller than it feels, a good thing!

And Now...

Week 18: First I looked kind of amorphic, thick around the middle, kind of chubby. Last week I bought my first maternity clothing, thank goodness for H&M, because most maternity wear reminds me of office or secretary wear, and I was struggling with not being able to dress like myself. To my shock and horror I got out of the shower on Saturday and realized my belly button, rather shallow to begin with, is merely weeks away from extinction! Picture to come soon I am sure!

The Day it All Began

One Sunday we came up positive:











I don't think it actually hit us until the following Tuesday what the meaning of the stick really said!
And then, ten weeks later, we saw this>
I don't think I have ever seen anything more amazing!